Contrary to what was looming, Jean-Michel Salvator will not finally take the head of the editorial management of Current values. Impossible under the present conditions, according to him. He therefore informed, Wednesday, October 26, the Franco-Lebanese shipowner Iskandar Safa, shareholder of the weekly since 2015, that he was throwing in the towel. Ancient from Figarowhere he worked alongside Nicolas Beytout, Etienne Mougeotte and Alexis Brézet, themselves representatives of different currents that run through the right, Mr. Salvator intended to make Current values “a liberal economics newspaper, uninhibited right, but not far right”. A more moderate editorial line than that printed by Geoffroy Lejeune, a 30-year-old assuming himself as “react”, daily guest on the CNews channel, under the supervision of Vincent Bolloré.
It was reckoning without the internal mobilization that the young editorial director set up around his person with the support of a large part of the said editorial staff. The journalist, promoted to this position in 2016, at 27, took public opinion to witness by publishing a text and a video on Tuesday, in which he asks readers to help the newspaper, whose economic health is fragile.
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“Dear readers, Current valueswe have become accustomed, in recent years, to advancing under the grapeshot »says first Geoffroy Lejeune, in the foreground – while the editorial staff appears behind him in a row of onions, in front of the Arc de Triomphe de l’Etoile, in Paris, a few steps from the premises of Current values.
“Behind the Boss”
For four minutes, the close friend of Marion Maréchal and several figures from the ultra-conservative newspaper depict the weekly as a victim of “the press, the left and certain politicians”who want, they say, “our weakening, our renunciation, our death”. Mr. Lejeune jeers “a destabilization”, hopes for 15,000 new subscribers by the end of the year; all this accompanied by an anxiety-provoking musical theme and the hashtag #JeSuisLàPourVA. “We naturally put ourselves behind the boss”says journalist Jules Torres, who covered the Reconquest leader’s campaign and has since published Zemmour, in the secret of his campaigna benevolent work.
“The union around Geoffroy was made simply, he did not put the gun to our heads. »
This is after watching this video “in the Zemmourian register” that Mr. Salvator told the World to have given up, because it is about“a coup by the editorial board” and a “shareholder affront”. “They took readers and social networks to witness by saying: ‘We are there, we are staying there’, they have gone way too far”analyzes the former managing editor of Parisian. “It’s unprecedented to see an editorial team take power like this and take over a newspaper to make it the instrument of a political party”he reacts again.
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